BOTH SIDES NOW

Beeswax, damar resin, dry pigment and shellac on cradled wood panel.

60x40x1"

This etherial painting was inspired by the Joni Mitchell song "Both Sides Now". She wrote this song while flying, gazing out the window and watching clouds shift and transform-angel hair, ice cream castles in the air, and feathered canyons everywhere. Those opening lines have always stayed with me. To me, this song is about the importance of embracing life's paradoxes-the beauty and sorrow, the wins and losses, the giving and the taking. All of it weaves together into the fullness of the human experience.
With this painting, I wanted to capture the essence of those first few lines: the flow, the movement, the shapes of the clouds, and that innocence and childlike wonder that never fully leaves us, even as adults. It's a visual meditation on how we've all looked at clouds-both literally and metaphorically-from both sides now.